Re: Victoria...it begins!

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

In article <zk0H2.13$c61.378752@news0.optus.net.au> dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) writes:
>From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
>Subject: Re: Victoria...it begins!
>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:50:39 GMT

>John Cleverdon (johnc@cdi.com.au) wrote:
>> Lets see now... Speed limit for the railway = 80 kph. Speed limit for truckies =
>> 100 kph (when they bother with legal limits :-).
>> So how is rail meant to compete with road if the trucks can go 25% faster?
>> When it is seen that road is faster than rail, and the rail company has little
>> interest in improving this, guess where all the traffic is going to go?

>One thing that any business will tell you is that "on time" is much more
>important than "shortest time".

>Cheers
>David

And the other thing that business will tell you is that whoever charges the 
least , irrespective of the speed will get the freight.
Rail can easily beat road on price if 
1/ Rail operators dont have to pay idioticly high  track access charges , (VF 
wont have to)
2/ Rail operators dont have huge debts incurred through buying massive fleets 
of brand new locos , (VF dont.)

All VF have to do is copy ASR , but do it a bit quicker , they have only 15 
years gainst 50.

MD